Take a look http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php. MSL is designed to support any method / attribute supported by PerlMagick. However since there has not been much demand for MSL we have not completed the full gamut of methods / attributes and instead add support if a user asks. We do have solving this problem on our list of things to do without an ETA at this time. For now, if you need an method / attribute supported, let us know.

We have a fix for the problem. Look for an update to the Windows binaries by sometime tomorrow. We intend to support all the standard attributes (e.g. fill, stroke, etc) from the image, set, read, or write tags in the near future.

Its just a matter of convenience. You can set the global attributes in any of these tags but it makes the most sense to set them in the read tag if that is where you are using them. However, not all the attributes are coded just yet (see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl- ... -attribute).

In regards to documentation. There is more work than we can possibly finish in a lifetime so we mostly work on activities associated with ImageMagick that are in demand. There has been little interest in MSL so there has been little activity. However, we do intend to finish up the setting and getting of the complete set of image attributes within the next week or so.